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The Challenge of Studying Evalutation Theory
Author(s) -
King Jean A.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
new directions for evaluation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.374
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1534-875X
pISSN - 1097-6736
DOI - 10.1002/ev.76
Subject(s) - field (mathematics) , management science , computer science , engineering ethics , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , economics , engineering , mathematics , pure mathematics
This chapter discusses why evaluation as a field has not systematically studied its own theory and then examines the Christie research in detail to highlight its procedures and assumptions and the challenge of translating such theory into practice.